KUNA : Morocco seeks increase in renewable energy resources – Economics – 15/09/2022 – Kuwait News Agency

KUNA : Morocco seeks increase in renewable energy resources – Economics – 15/09/2022 – Kuwait News Agency

Report by Mustafa Al-Marini

RABAT, Sept 15 (KUNA) -- Morocco is seeking various means to increase its renewable energy resources, launching projects harnessing solar, wind, and hydropower energies to produce clean power.



Leila Benali, Morocco's energy minister, recently told reporters that her country was heading forward to increase its renewable energy resources, a quest, which began some 13 years ago.



She revealed that around USD six billion was set to achieve this very goal, noting that some milestones were met, turning the Kingdom of Morocco once facing an energy deficit to a country with a renewed energy capacity of 37 percent in 2021 according to official data.



The goal was to reach 52 percent by 2030, she revealed with 20 percent from solar energy, 20 percent wind, and 12 percent hydro-powered.



In Morocco, there are over 111 renewable energy projects in operation or under development with an accumulated 3,950 megawatts output.



Renewable energy represented 20 percent of the country's electricity production according to data by the Morocco energy ministry.



In 2016, the Noor Ouarzazate Solar Power Station, one of the world largest renewable projects, was inaugurated at an area of 1.4